excelcnv.exe参数备忘

The command line arguments for excelcnv.exe are not documented well. Many examples online refer to “-oice” argument followed by the input and output file names. That’s it. And yeah, this actually works, so since I have already mentioned that input parameter can be an URL, the downloader invocation can be as follows:

excelcnv.exe -oice

Still, there is more to discover.

For instance, what the heck is ‘oice’? After googling around I eventually discovered it stands for Office Isolated Conversion Environment.

Other interesting stuff to look at are other, undocumented command line arguments used by excelcnv.exe – these I found so far are as follows:

-oics – don’t know how it is being used at the moment

-bcs – you can use it to convert INPUT file to .ods e.g.

excelcnv.exe -bcs

-repair

-o – orientation (for PDF)

-ps – paper size (for PDF)

-dps – default paper size (for PDF)

-scl – scaling option (for PDF)

-wtp – what to print (for PDF)

-preview – preview quality (for PDF)

-pofo – automatic print on file open (for PDF)

-nafap – use named action setting (for PDF)

-pglim – page limit (for PDF)

-rv – unknown (for PDF)

There are probably more, but this is what I explored so far.

The default OUTPUT file type is XLSX. The file format can be changed using a dedicated file extension accepted by the program:

.xltx

.xlam

.xlsm

.ods

.xls*

.pdf

.xlsx

.png

.jpg

but not sure yet how to use all of them as not all of them worked for me (good news is that all the .xl work well with “-oice” command).